Form, materiality
rūpa
Mind & theory
Building on it
Stage 4 of 8
The first aggregate: bodily, material form, the four great elements and what is derived from them.
On the path: 4 · How experience arises — What is it we call a person and a world? The five aggregates, the sense fields, contact, feeling, craving, clinging — not-self as a first introduction.
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- Cetanā, citta and the “flow of prāṇa” Theravāda Abhidhamma · cetanā, cittaja-rūpa, vāyo-dhātu & kāyaviññatti
- Cetanā, the elements and the siddhis Theravāda Abhidhamma · will & matter (a deepening of cittaja-rūpa)
- How mind works matter Theravāda Abhidhamma · cittaja-rūpa & iddhi
- The fivefoldness of the one reality Comparative · Theravāda – Vajrayāna – Śaivism
Across all traditions
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